Jasie Dunk knows that sometimes you have to problem-solve during a match.
Dunk, who will be a junior at Corona del Mar High, went up against Sravya Gudipudi of Clovis on Thursday morning in a girls' 16 singles semifinal of the Costa Mesa Summer Junior...

Don't look now, but there is a Saleh performing well at the Costa Mesa Summer Junior Classic tennis tournament.
Dante Saleh, who won boys' 12s and 14s titles at the tournament in 2007 and 2008, respectively, watched his younger brother Andre build an...

Two Back Bay players who have improved a lot since last fall's high school girls' tennis season did battle at the "War by the Shore" junior tennis tournament on Friday.
Corona del Mar High junior-to-be Jasie Dunk and Newport Harbor incoming sophomore...

The high school girls' tennis season is still a few weeks away, but those looking for a bit of a Back Bay rivalry match can watch it Friday at The Tennis Club Newport Beach.
Corona del Mar High incoming junior Jasie Dunk will play Newport Harbor incoming sophomore Nicole Knickerbocker at the 26th annual The Tennis Club Junior Tournament, better known as the "War by the Shore."
Even better, the girls' 16 singles title of the tournament will be on the line when the two players square off at 11 a.m....

Momentum changed quickly on Thursday for junior tennis player Mackenzie Worsnop.
Worsnop, a Newport Beach resident, seemed to be in control of her girls' 18 singles semifinal match against her friend Layla Rodriguez of Rancho Santa Margarita in the first set. But a 5-2 lead suddenly turned into Rodriguez winning the first set, 7-5.
Worsnop, the No. 3 seed, had to bounce back quickly against the No. 2-seeded Rodriguez, at the 26th annual The Tennis Club Junior Tournament, better known as the "War by...

The Newport Harbor High girls' tennis program tends to make an impression when it's supporting one of its own.
More than a dozen Sailors turned out Wednesday afternoon to cheer for incoming senior Jenn Kingsley, who was in a girls' 18 singles quarterfinal match at the 26th annual The Tennis Club Junior Tournament, better known as the "War by the Shore."
"They've got like the whole city of Newport here," Newport Beach resident Mackenzie Worsnop said, watching the action after finishing her own girls'...

Ari Coskinas knows Adam Langevin pretty well.
The two junior tennis players both live in Newport Beach, and both also travel to Fountain Valley daily to train at Dent Tennis Academy.
So when Coskinas saw the draw at the 26th annual The Tennis Club Junior Tournament, better known as the "War by the Shore," he knew he could be playing his friend in the round of 32 of the boys' 18s.
"I mean, it's stressful," Coskinas said. "You get pretty tight, and it's hard because you know each other's weaknesses,...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Reese Stalder, a recent Newport Harbor High graduate, was named the Southern California Tennis Assn. boys' Player of the Year at a dinner event Sunday night in Costa Mesa.
Stalder certainly earned the award. Less than 24 hours later, though, he himself had a bit of a different assessment in terms of who is the hottest player of the moment.
Brandon Holt, who recently finished his junior year at Palos Verdes High, has been on fire recently. Holt beat Stalder in three sets earlier...

Austin Di Giulio is as ready to talk about his favorite basketball team, the Los Angeles Lakers, as his tennis game.
The 15-year-old from Newport Beach is a big Lakers fan, and he had an opinion on who the team should take with the No. 2 overall pick in Thursday's NBA Draft.
"All their championship teams have had a good center," Di Giulio said, believing that the team should go with Duke center Jahlil Okafor.
The Lakers ended up drafting Ohio State point guard D'Angelo Russell, and Di Giulio wasn'...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY — Two years can be an eternity in junior tennis.
Newport Beach resident Max McKennon turned 13 in May. On Thursday morning he played Kirun Cheung of Santa Monica, who will turn 15 in September.
McKennon needed his best performance to top Cheung in the boys' 14 singles round of 64 match of the 113th annual Southern California Junior Sectionals tournament.
Instead, unforced errors proved to be McKennon's downfall. Cheung won, 6-3, 6-2, in the opening main draw match for both...